The Fix - The story of one of New Zealand's biggest swindles by Scott Bainbridge
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
In 1966, international con-man Robert Gardner brought a highly skilled crew of grifters to New Zealand to pull off one of the biggest swindles in the country’s history. This was executed with professional precision, until two young office girls played detective and stumbled upon a crucial mistake – but ...Show more
A Walking Guide to New Zealand's Long Trail: Te Araroa — 115 walks from Cape Reinga to Bluff, including day walks and long tramps by Geoff Chapple
$50.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
This is the guidebook of Te Araroa Trail: The Long Pathway, a continuous trail running from Cape Reinga to Bluff, 35 years in the making, which officially opened in late 2011. The book maps the 3000-kilometer trail in 40-kilometer sections, with maps by leading map maker Roger Smith of Geographx. Author ...Show more
Vanishing Ice: Stories of New Zealand's Glaciers by Lynley Hargreaves
$59.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand
Written by Lynely Hargreaves, this important new book describes New Zealand's glaciers, and how we have interacted with them. Glaciation has had a huge impact on the shape of the New Zealand landscape. Enormous rivers of ice once flowed out onto the Canterbury Plains, stretched beyond the current West ...Show more
Nature and Wellbeing in Aotearoa New Zealand - Exploring the Connection by Catherine Knight
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: near fine
We have never been more aware of the benefit of being out in nature, but how much quality time does the 'average' New Zealander spend enjoying the outdoors? While our national parks are places of spectacular wilderness, for many of us, these places are out of reach. This ground-breaking book argues the ...Show more
Too Much Money - How Wealth Disparities Are Unbalancing Aotearoa New Zealand by Max Rashbrooke
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
Today, someone in the wealthiest 1 per cent of adults – a club of some 40,000 people – has a net worth 68 times that of the average New Zealander. Too Much Money is the story of how wealth inequality is changing Aotearoa New Zealand. Possessing wealth opens up opportunities to live in certain areas, ge ...Show more
Excellent Short Walks in the South Island: Over 400 Walks in Under 2 Hours by Peter Janssen
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand
Wherever you are in the South Island you are sure to be within reach of a short walk with an excellent destination. In this updated edition, Peter Janssen has picked more than 400 walks that take less than two hours. These walks will suit those who enjoy walking but do not want a long tramp with a heavy ...Show more
Checkerboard Hill by Jade Kake
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
Checkerboard Hill is a story of belonging, dislocation, misunderstandings, identity and fractured relationships. When a family member dies in Australia, Ria flies from New Zealand and returns to the family and home in Australia she suddenly left decades before as a teenager. Waiting for her return are ...Show more
Epic Hikes of Australia & New Zealand (Lonely Planet) by .
$49.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Series: Epic
Lace up your hiking boots for the next in Lonely Planet's highly successful Epic Hikes series, this time exploring 50 of Australia and New Zealand's most rewarding treks and trails. From the Routeburn Track in New Zealand's South Island to the Cape to Cape walk in Western Australia's Leeuwin-Naturalist ...Show more
Dear Colin, Dear Ron - The Selected Letters of Colin McCahon and Ron Reilly by Peter Simpson
$65.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: near fine
This substantial book of letters selected by esteemed Colin McCahon scholar Peter Simpson shines a light on one of the most remarkable relationships in New Zealand art. The painter Colin McCahon and the librarian Ron O'Reilly first met in 1938, in Dunedin, when McCahon was 19 and O'Reilly 24. They rem ...Show more
Driving Test Ezy: New Zealand Driver Theory
$34.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand
Provides all the relevant New Zealand theory test questions and answers to help prepare you to pass the driver theory test for licence classes 1 to 6. All the information you need in one book covering road rules and safe driving practices. Study the knowledge and standards you require to pass the New Ze ...Show more
Russian at Heart - Sonechka's Story by Olga Hawkes; John Hawkes
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
In freezing mid-winter Moscow, 1924, Sonechka Balk queues to view Lenin's body. She is not there to pay homage, but to see the man whose revolution has stolen her youth. The revolution left the orphaned Sonechka destitute and destroyed her idyllic life in the Crimea. Forced to work for Lenin's secret po ...Show more